Sheep Salving

Description

Mr. M. Horner of Buckden salving sheep in a field at Cray ( Langstrothdale). A wooden salving bowl, with flat handle, has been lodged in a dry stone wall. Mr. Horner sits on a salving stool with the sheep, and prepares to apply the salving mixture having parted the sheep's wool. Before the introduction of chemical sheep dip, sheep were salved with a mixture of tar and grease, the wool being parted and the salve rubbed into the roots. Originally held in green slide cabinet, reference B50.

Metadata

Identifier rgnjky5x
IRN 413660
Class Mark LAVC/PHO/S545
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/rgnjky5x
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Slides
Creator(s) Kissling, Werner
Date July 1965
Size and Medium 1 glass slide.

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